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Stephanie Paulsell is a scholar of religion and a person of deep faith, but when deciding on a subject for her latest research, she chose one of literary history’s most enthusiastic atheists. “Virginia Woolf was raised by Victorian agnostics to think that...

Shaun Casey, MDiv '83, ThD '98, sat with a local imam in a café in Sub-Saharan Africa. A careless word or gesture could cause offense and derail the important cross-cultural meeting. The conversation stalled, the coffee cooled, and Casey's curiosity got...

Mark D. Jordan, a pioneer in sexual ethics and a wide-ranging scholar of the history of Christianity, theology, and gender studies, has been named the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought at Harvard Divinity School, with a joint appointment in...

Simran Jeet Singh was running home from his office at New York University when he heard the slur. His first impulse was to ignore it as he had so many times in the past. Then he stopped, stiffened, and turned back to the young man who had shouted at him...

Harvard University President Drew Faust announced today that David Hempton will become dean of Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1. Hempton, the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at the Divinity School, succeeds...

HDS professor Ahmed Ragab was a medical student at Cairo University in the early 2000s when he first walked into Egypt's 700-year-old Mansuri Hospital. A 1992 earthquake that had left thousands wounded or dead also forced the closure of Mansuri, an...

On March 20, Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Smith College, spoke about her latest book, Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World, as part of the "African, Diasporic, and Indigenous Religions in Conversation"...

"Religion is a lived thing. It is practiced as it is understood and adhered to by its adherents and its followers. And that means it is always changing and evolving. So two communities within the same branch may practice their religion very differently,"...

On April 24, 2007, Lenn E. Goodman, Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University presented this talk on Judaism and science. This event was sponsored by the Robert and Florence Dreben Lecture and...

What led rival youth militia leaders to come together as peacebuilding partners? How do you negotiate peace when religious identities are at stake? What are Muslim experiences of conflict and peace and how do they mirror those of other communities? These...

In 1871, Thomas Nast drew an editorial cartoon about Catholic immigration to the United States. Entitled "The American River Ganges," it depicts bishops as crocodiles emerging from the ocean on all fours, scales on their backs and mitres transformed into...

David Little, T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict at Harvard Divinity School, has been named director of the School's Center for the Study of Values in Public Life. "Professor Little brings to...